Alice’s Fate
Digital index of English materials around Alice Hyun
(2025 - ONGOING)
Alice’s Fate (2025 - ongoing) is the expansion of Ryu’s research into Alice Hyun (1903-1956?), the first Korean American born in Hawaii and the first Korean American to gain US citizenship through birth. Alice’s Fate (2025 - ongoing) highlights Ryu’s practice of viewing translation as a political vehicle. Alice’s Fate is a website landing page that contains and organizes information available of Alice Hyun in one digital location. This living digital index will expand as more information becomes available around this feminist figure.
Thank you to The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
Rabbit hole 0: Alice Hyun English Summary
“Untold story of Alice Hyun : Life and Tragic Last of a Korean-American Communist,” Korea Citation Index, National Research Foundation of Korea, accessed Dec, 21, 2024.
Rabbit Hole 1: Alice Hyun Biography by Byung Joon Jung
Jung, Byung Joon, Hyun Alice and Her Era: The tragedy of a border person swept up in history. Seoul: DolBaeGae Publications, 2015.
Rabbit Hole 2: How to buy Alice Hyun’s Biography in the United States (website in Korean)
Rabbit Hole 3: Byung Joon Jang lectures on Alice Hyun in English
Jung, Byung Joon, “Alice Hyun: Korea's Mata Hari or a Revolutionary?” (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 19, 2016.)
Jung, Byung Joon, “Paradise Lost of Two Korean Americans,” (Royal Asiastic Society Korean Branch, Dec 15, 2016.)
Rabbit Hole 4: Peter Hyun (Alice’s brother) autobiography containing memories of Alice in English:
Hyun, Peter, MAN SEI!: The Making of a Korean American, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
Rabbit Hole 5: Artworks / Media / Creation around Alice
Min, Yong Soon, Alice 미옥, (Miok), archival print, 18″ x 36″, 2017.
아들에게 (미옥 앨리스 현) To My Son (Miok Alice Hyun), script by 구두리 (Goo Du Ri), theater troupe 극단 미인, Arko Art Theater Grand Theater, Seoul, Korea, January 13 - 21, 2024.
Ryu, C., “A l i c e & A l i c e: in free fall,” 3-channel video in custom made blue room, 18:17, January 19, 2024.
Park, Seo-lyeon, Kakadu, Seoul: Anon Books, March 13, 2024.
Rabbit Hole 6: Articles about Alice Hyun in English
Hwang, Dong-hee, “In Colonial Gyeongseong, young artists gather at Western-style cafe Kakadu,” The Korean Herald, April 20, 2024.
Hansen, Lena, “Finding Alice, a conversation with C. Ryu and Lena Hansen,” Bunker Review, November 12, 2024.